STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A large number of emergency officials responded to Stop & Shop in New Springville Tuesday afternoon to investigate a report of a suspicious package.

Several FDNY and NYPD units were summoned to the shopping center at 2795 Richmond Ave., in between Platinum and Yukon avenues.

Several of the stores neighboring Stop & Shop were evacuated, and cops prevented vehicles from entering the lot.

Workers were allowed back inside the stores at 1:43 p.m.

Dennis Richardson, a maintenance worker at Pergament Properties, which runs the strip mall, said the package was found by one of the check-out aisles.

"It's a black and yellow bookbag that has an Arizona [beverage] inside the net," he said. "It's sitting by register two. And they think it's a bomb. I don't know what it is. It's been sitting there since 10, 10:30."

Monday night, the discovery of a suspicious suitcase brought the NYPD's Bomb Squad to Port Richmond, leading officers to rope off one block and evacuate families living on another for several hours.